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Some edited footages I shot during a New York City trip for
Human Rights Watch International Film Festival and the
New York Asian Film Festival in June 2005. Nearly mugged wandering
around. It's a little tribute to this lovely city and people but NOT
to Bush and his administration. It got this wonderful creative aura
energy that hard to explain. Anyway, this video here will tell on
how I felt being in the "City That Never Sleeps". Edited with the
background music of U2 from the album "All that you can't leave
behind, New York - 2000 ".

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Friday, February 02, 2007

guerilla LED ad campaign lead to terrorism scare in boston

"ATHF is the bomb"

There was a terrorism scare in Boston last wednesday, strange devices were found all over the city. Police close down most of the area. The bomb squad came, detonated and removed all of it. Turns out the devices are part of a guerrilla marketing campaign for [Cartoon Network which is owned by Time Warner] "Aqua Teen Hunger Force". The devices are little LED Moominites. I thought it was a cool & cheap campaign but the authorities and US media turn it into a complete 'moronic' situation. Read more from Metroblogging Boston, here's the first and last posts on this topic.

Boston's freaked out police have arrested the guy who stuck those things around town... They're going to come up with all kinds of charges to justify the official panic attack and predictable meltdown suffered by the police and city administration. Yeah... I think they should actually pass a law that bans LEDs. LEDs are evil, they are weapons of mass destruction. No more LEDs, return to using light bulbs again. No wait, I think you can also make bombs from lightbulbs. Ban lightbulbs. Use candles! Ahh, no way, candles are dangerous too! Fire!! Fire!!! And you can stick a candle up someone's arse eye, too. People might get hurt! Terrorists are just waiting to hijack a plane using candles, and then blow everything up! this is stupid paranoia!!!. Get from Raplica this cool T-shirts with a Mooninite and the slogan "ATHF is the bomb" to make fun of the foolish authorities who practically shut down Boston because of all this. I ordered mine, go and get one yourself.

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Steve
Jobs - Referring to the pirate flag that flew over Apple’s headquaters
in 1983. I believe that quote was one of three keyphrases for a
large Apple meeting/conference, and the Pirate flag was attached
to the Macintosh building after that meeting. So the flag was actually
a reaction to that.

About Me

Hatz is a designer/producer exploring abstract kinetic systems through diverse digital media arts including unique 2D/3D motion design, current affair/travel documentary, music videos, corporate videos, short films and creative design. Born in Johor, raised and educated in Singapore. Currently a part-time postgrad student (consistently missing lectures and tutorials because of my job...arhhh! or should I just quit?), a seeker of the path of truth (struggling to attain the experiential knowledge of God) and commissioned producer for global broadcaster base in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Updated: 2008, I will stop school for awhile to be with 'Bapak' and move my work/studio base back to Singapore.